I'm sorry, but who the fuck cares about Paris Hilton's 45-day jail sentence? What would compel an editor to run it on the front page of a daily newspaper in a fairly high traffic media market? It ain't just about ratings. Our mass media has become more about entertainment than about anything substantial, a way to dumb down the masses during a crucial historical moment of war, domestic displacement and and an all-out attack on our civil liberties by the totaliarian regime we call our government. Forget covering the hard fought victories being won EVERYDAY by working people of color against all the odds.

The ONLY thing this whole Paris Hilton media blitz it useful for is for providing a glaring example of why our criminal justice system is a joke.